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in britain, you can call on the nonpolitical royal family, the king or queen or prince or duchess of plymouth or whatever they're called and put an official stamp. >> the late night shows? >> thinking of the oscars. we had the oscars. how many tens of millions of people are watching this and picked up some grumbling from the right should michelle obama have been there and politicalizing the oscars and made me think of january of 1985. >> of course it did. >> instantly. >> ronald reagan's second term and a major national cultural event called the super bowl and look what happened at the super bowl. >> i have heard of it. >> mr. president, will you please toss the coin? >> it is tails. >> so there you go. the dolphins lost the coin toss. reagan didn't have to run in florida again so all was okay. business there grumbling from democrats? there was for all i know and an imperfect balance between the head of state and active in politics. to me it's like, whatever. that's the nature of it. michelle obama at the oscars is fine. ronald reagan at the super bowl is fine and then president dukakis at os
in britain, you can call on the nonpolitical royal family, the king or queen or prince or duchess of plymouth or whatever they're called and put an official stamp. >> the late night shows? >> thinking of the oscars. we had the oscars. how many tens of millions of people are watching this and picked up some grumbling from the right should michelle obama have been there and politicalizing the oscars and made me think of january of 1985. >> of course it did. >> instantly....
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. >>> the snowstorm has forced the automatic shutdown of a nuclear power plant in plymouth, massachusetts. er in never a threat to public safety. but 400,000 customers in the bay state don't have power right now. more totals after "weekends with alex witt." [ lisa ] my name's lisa, and chantix helped me quit. i honestly loved smoking, and i honestly didn't think i would ever quit. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix is proven to help people quit smoking. it reduces the urge to smoke. it put me at ease that you could smoke on the first week. [ male announcer ] some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. if you notice any of these stop taking chantix and call your doctor right away. tell your doctor about any history of depression or other mental health problems, which could get worse while taking chantix. don't take chantix if you've had a serious allergic or skin reaction to it. if you develop these stop taking chantix and see your doctor right away as some c
. >>> the snowstorm has forced the automatic shutdown of a nuclear power plant in plymouth, massachusetts. er in never a threat to public safety. but 400,000 customers in the bay state don't have power right now. more totals after "weekends with alex witt." [ lisa ] my name's lisa, and chantix helped me quit. i honestly loved smoking, and i honestly didn't think i would ever quit. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix is proven to help people quit smoking. it reduces...
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we mentioned the plymouth nuclear plant. they lost power as well. they're on generators, but 90% of the area around them is without power as a result. cold and windy. a long ways to go. even once the bands kick out of here, we could potentially see some of the record snowfall, bument we'll be dealing with the wind blowing the snow around. >> as you point out, the power outages, right? so we're saying half a million in the region. these are customers. this isn't necessarily people. these are homes. that number, it's a huge, huge number when you try to really wrap your arms around it. i'm glad it's just you and another tv crew and no one else really getting pelted in your eyeballs. thank you for taking one for the team. we'll come back for you for us in boston. want to keep this moving because i want to take you to new york and talk about travel because the blizzard obviously making travel very difficult for a lot of people. down right impossible, actually, for others. the new york knicks, for example, basketball team, stuck tonight in minneapolis bec
we mentioned the plymouth nuclear plant. they lost power as well. they're on generators, but 90% of the area around them is without power as a result. cold and windy. a long ways to go. even once the bands kick out of here, we could potentially see some of the record snowfall, bument we'll be dealing with the wind blowing the snow around. >> as you point out, the power outages, right? so we're saying half a million in the region. these are customers. this isn't necessarily people. these...
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and we're now hearing that the plymouth nuclear power plant is also out of power, but they are on backgenerators so they're not saying it's an emergency, but 90 pe 90% of the area around the power plant without power as well. hurricane force winds, heavy, wet snow, and this is going be here for a while, even when this starts to back out of here by tomorrow, these winds are still going to be blowing. all the fresh snow on the ground will continue to do this. >> all right, weather geek. we appreciate you enjoying yourself out there. we'll keep coming back to you. you mentioned the wind, the power outages. want to give you an update on some of the folks we heard were trapped on the long island expressway. here is what we know, from suffolk county confirming crews are clearing off the cars around exit 59 and 63. a spokesman confirmed there have been people stuck in the cars and he doesn't know how many, and as far as he knows there are no medical emergencies besides being stuck and not being able to get off the expressway. want to take you back to boston, to actually, full transparency, a dear frien
and we're now hearing that the plymouth nuclear power plant is also out of power, but they are on backgenerators so they're not saying it's an emergency, but 90 pe 90% of the area around the power plant without power as well. hurricane force winds, heavy, wet snow, and this is going be here for a while, even when this starts to back out of here by tomorrow, these winds are still going to be blowing. all the fresh snow on the ground will continue to do this. >> all right, weather geek. we...
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. >> reporter: electricity to the nuclear power plant in plymouth, massachusetts, knocked out briefly while hundreds of thousands of people spent the night without light or heat. these two were lucky. you did not lose power all night. how was it? >> it was fine. we watched a couple of movies and went to sleep. >> reporter: travel severely impacted. no one on the roads. airports in boston, new york, and elsewhere, out of operation. more than 5,000 flights canceled. >> and ashleigh banfield joins me now from fairfield, connecticut. i heard you on the phone. it was a white-knuckle drive just to get you there. >> reporter: marty savidge, do you know how long it took me to get to this town from where i live which is typically about a 15-minute drive? it took one hour and 45 minutes. i spent about 45 of those minutes right at the exit. when the governor says don't drive, the governor means what he says. it's really stupid for anyone else -- i was single file on 95 with a bunch of yahoos who shouldn't have been there passing wreck after wreck after wreck. not only that, very few plays could
. >> reporter: electricity to the nuclear power plant in plymouth, massachusetts, knocked out briefly while hundreds of thousands of people spent the night without light or heat. these two were lucky. you did not lose power all night. how was it? >> it was fine. we watched a couple of movies and went to sleep. >> reporter: travel severely impacted. no one on the roads. airports in boston, new york, and elsewhere, out of operation. more than 5,000 flights canceled. >> and...
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it was that blue area over there, then over plymouth, now about ready to get into boston proper. providence, hartford, just about ready to get to hartford, a couple of lightning strikes through there. we talked about there could be thunder snow, now we know there is thunder snow. we lightning bolts on this map over brook haven. if you see it, it flashes, you don't know what that was, is that a power failure? all of a sudden you hear the boom. and it is kind of a muffled boom. but it's out there. thunder snow tonight means there's so much air going up and down, shear coming in, like using your feet with leather shoes, put example it on the carpet and turning your brother. you can get a good shock. that's how mother nature does it. 23 million people right now in blizzard warnings and still more to come. probably 2 to 3 more inches in new york city before it's all done. >> we'll watch it together with you, chad. >>> coming up, our planet is in for a close encounter next week. an as trade half the size of a football field. anything to worry about? we'll show you what to expect next.
it was that blue area over there, then over plymouth, now about ready to get into boston proper. providence, hartford, just about ready to get to hartford, a couple of lightning strikes through there. we talked about there could be thunder snow, now we know there is thunder snow. we lightning bolts on this map over brook haven. if you see it, it flashes, you don't know what that was, is that a power failure? all of a sudden you hear the boom. and it is kind of a muffled boom. but it's out...